Improvement in clothes-pounders



UNITED STATEs PATENT OEEIoE.

ALBERT GUMMEB, OF OMBO, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-POUNDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,024, dated November 19, 1878; application led May 13, 187s.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT GUM-MER, of Omro, Winnebago county, Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Founders, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists, rst, of a hollow cylinder, open at both ends, and having perforated diaphragins or screens to permit the passage of air; second, in the combination, with said cylinder and diaphragms, of a perforated hollow cone attached to the top of the cylinder, leaving an opening between it and the cylinder,and also at its apex around the handle; third, of a removable cylinder, to be attached to theinside of the primary cylinder, for the purpose of affording greater frictional surface for washing.

Figure l is a section of the clothes-pounder. Fig. 2 is a section on the line l 2, and Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 4, of Fig. 1.

A is the handle attached to the frame B B, which forms the core of the' pounder. The cylinder E is fastened to this frame, as are also the perforated diaphragms or screens H and H. The perforated cone C is attached to the cylinder by stays D D, leaving an opening between the cylinder and cone. There is also an opening in the apex of the cone round the handle.

The removable cylinder F has a central block or blocks, G, and may beattached, by

screw or otherwise, to the frame B B. It is open at the top, so that the air escapes freely through the screen or diaphragm H.

The cone C is made removable, and may be used or not, as occasion requires. It is perfo rated, to secure plenty of vent to the air.

In Fig. 2 a perforated diaphragm, H', is represented, and in Fig. 3 a wire screen. Either or both may be used.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A hollow cylindrical clothes-pounder, E, open at both ends, and having frame B B and screens H H', substantially as shown and described.

2. The hollow cylinder E, having frame B B and screens H H', in combination with perforated cone C, substantially as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

3. The clothes-pounder composed of the hollow cylinder E, having frame B B, the screens H H', removable cone C, and supplementary removable cylinder F, having block or blocks Gr, substantially as shown and described.

ALBERT GUMMER.

Witnesses C. PALMER, N. KONRAD, Jr. 

